The Transcendentalism club was started in the year of 1836, on September 8th, a man named George Ripley and Emerson met in Cambridge, and planned a gathering about nature as well as religion. This is how the club was officially born, they gathered and talked about very deep well thought out veiws and opinions on nature, religion, the human brain, and all their relations to one another. This Transendentalism club was a protest against the certain intelectual veiws from the colleges point that were taught to the stuents. George Ripley and Emerson knew that there were many different ways to look at the points that were brought up in the colleges, also different ways of learning the topics at hand. Such as religion, George and Emerson broke away from this Ritual because their beliefs in the Unitarian church as well as Harvard, had different opinons on the veiws of nature, philosophy, and government. Each time when the men would gather for a new meeting, new topics and ideas would be brought to the table to discuss for that night. On October 18,1836 they had a long nights discussion on "Education of Humanity" and the next meeting was on the religious veiws they agreed or disagreed with and why. The Transendentalism Club had started to expand very rapidly and had many meetings through out the years. I think Transendentalism has its points and Emerson and George Ripley knew that the ways of nature, and religion could be expressed in other ways than by a specific and set into stone actions . It's important to have diverse ways of looking at situations so your opinions can be heard as well as your voice. The Transendentalism Club was important to the Transcendentalism movement because the fact that he Unitarian church had set in stone ways of teaching at Harvard, Transcendentalism said there is not only one way that things work, might not always have to add up, destiny can happen. It opened the eyes of many people to free disscussion of government, philosopy, and religion. This Club became very popular through out the years with students and professers at Harvard University. This gave people a better understanding and a more flexiable mind on how all these topics might land on the same page and relate. For example, the constitution was built on the hands of religion and god, but the church refused to add or mention any of the relations involving any other way but their own.
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